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**Websites**  

**Valerie Newman** **1.** //Exploring Florida: A Social Studies Resource for Students and Teacher// [] This site has lots of information about Florida for students and teachers. There is a specific section called Florida. Then and Now that has lots of teacher resources, like questions, notes, reading strategies, and activity sheets. There are also photos, music, maps, and videos available. I liked the section called Floripedia: A Florida Encyclopedia, because there are articles on everything you could imagine about Florida and it is organized alphabetically.

[] This website goes along with the Houghton Mifflin textbook, but you do not need the textbook to still be able to use the resources. There are maps of every state and country available for print out as well as lots of different graphic organizers. It is helpful that the textbook goes along with the Sunshine State Standards and the units are basically broken down into the “strands” of the SSS. My favorite part is under the “Unit Bibliographies” section. There is a list of books for that unit; for independent, read aloud, and some other references.
 * //2. Houghton Mifflin Social Studies: Florida Studies// **

[] <span style="color: #15b215; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">This website has a lot of quick facts about Florida, anything from the state symbols to the state’s history. There are different categories, each with a short quick summary about the event and some pictures.
 * <span style="color: #15b215; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">//3. Florida Division of Historical Resources// **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">//**Erica Kevern**// <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">//**1. Houghton Mifflin Social Studies: Florida Studies**// <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">[] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">This is a great website for kids because it is interactive and filled with reliable resources. These resources include primary documents, biographies, interactive maps, current events, and a write site. The write site is an excellent place for students to go if they are having trouble with any style of writing such as persuasive essay, research report, or personal narratives. In the primary resources tab, it gives actual maps, letters, and interviews that took place. These will help students further their understanding of a topic and hopefully allow them to make connections.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">//**2. Marie Time Capsule: On This Day in History…**// <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">[] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">This is a cool site for students to compare what life was like in different years. It lists the prices of the most common items such as, bread, milk, egg, car, gas, house, and stamps as well as the Top News Headlines for that week. Popular music and books are also listed which may be helpful for the students to look up to find additional information. This is a quick site that gives little information but it is enough to compare life before the Great Depression and after as well as how it is different from today. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">//**3. Scholastic**// <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">[] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">On this page it allows students to take a journey into the roaring 20’s and solve a mystery along the way. A clue will be presented about a certain subject area, in our case the roaring 20’s, and the students must investigate to find the answer. Once they have discovered the answer, they will be provided with additional information about that person or topic. Then another clue will be presented, and the pattern continues. It is a fun way to keep students engaged and include technology, research, and cooperation in the classroom.


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//**<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">1. Florida in the 1920’s **//
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 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">This site provided information as to why Florida prospered during the 1920s land boom, describing the government at the time, prohibition, developers, and visitors. It continues by describing the Hurricane of 1926 and the subsequence land bust that leads to the Great Depression.

//**<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">2. America in the ‘20s **//
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 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">This site provides some primary sources (pictures) that show how people looked, what they did, and even the advertisements for products. It also discusses the uprising of women and the revolution of the workplace. It concludes by describing what led to the crash of the economy at the end of 20s.

//**<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">3. A Brief History of Florida **//
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">[|http://www.flheritage.com/facts/history/summary/#florida]
 * This site provides a comprehensive history of Florida from its exploration through its development and the Great Depression and finishes by discussing Florida’s part in WWII and the post war boom.

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 * ====//<span style="color: #6b5ef3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I used this site to search for artifacts related to Florida and the Roaring 20’s, The Great Depression, and World War II. I could see this being used for a future lesson with students to either provide teachers with resources online, or to use with students as a kind of virtual field trip to study artifacts from the time period without leaving the classroom. //====
 * ====<span style="color: #6b5ef3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">[|http://www.flheritage.com/kids/history.cfm#world] ====
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 * ====//<span style="color: #6b5ef3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I found this website helpful in that in provides a brief overview of Florida history from the first explorers to post World War II Florida. This could be used for teachers as a quick review before teaching a lesson or a resource for students to use to find quick information. //====

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 * ====//<span style="color: #6b5ef3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">This site is a very hands on website for students to explore. It has content for students about the war, the effects back home, and the time period that surrounds it. It also has readings that tell what it was like for children during this time, to help students make connections. //====